On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> A tag is actually a branch which the developers agree not to commit to;
> this may seem strange, but can actually be advantageous in the rare-but-
> not-unheard-of case where we need to "slide" a tag, since Subversion
> will maintain a history of that slide.
The case of sliding tags during a ports thaw is not even at all rare,
hardly even barely.
mcl